As I sit here purring away with Tiger I can only laugh.
Everything I've seen of Vista is playing catch up with the last two interations of the Apple OS.
Apple has taken huge steps, first by going to a Unix based OS then by taking on Intel. They've bitten some painful bullets to update themselves from a competitive standpoint and to make themselves a superior product.
I don't ever expect Apple to be the dominant OS or even gain more than 10-15% market share. However they have set numerous benchmarks that have left MS in the dust.
It's incredibly hard though to steer a megacorporation like MS. If you're replacing the OS for 90% of the world's computers with a decade or more of legacy software you have to have as robust a successor as possible.
My biggest complaint, as a Mac user, about MS is that Office 2004 really kind of screwed us with only having Word, Excel, Power Point and Entourage (Outlook for you Windows users.). We're missing Visio, Front Page, Project, Publisher and some other components.
I still won't go Windows.
There are a lot of different substitutes for FrontPage. Since I write my HTML by hand, I don't know much about them.
What really hurts us with corporate users is Access. It's a lousy database but people get sent Access databases all the time and are expected to be able to use them.
I thought this was interesting from the article:
"But this is the right thing to do. In the longer view, 2, 3, 5 years from now...this will have been the right call.
When do they expect Vista's replacement to come out? In a decade?
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I dunno. If MS does actually go belly up in some fashion...I can see hordes clamoring for Apple PCs and laptops.
I'm no expert in the field and don't suppose that a company with assets like MS could go under...but what if people just said, "Enough" and started buying Apple? Could happen.
^^^^^^^^^^Everything I've seen of Vista is playing catch up with the last two interations of the Apple OS.^^^^^^^^^^^
Apparently you haven't been introduced to XGL.
Welcome to multiple desktops. And you'll need the plugin to view this.
Video:
http://www.freedesktop.org/~davidr/xgl-demo1.xvid.avi
Plugin:
http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/
Or just download an OSS player for macos:(which is probably the easier option)
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html
http://www.videolan.org/
MS doesn't have a OSX version of Project or Visio? Way to go to increase Apple's share in corporations. Maybe that's the idea.